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if suddenly you add on top of it a light sensor, suddenly you are responding to the environment. what we do is make the kits and we see this consistently, people buy the kits and then come back and buy another kit, then they come back and buy individual bits. >> what's the repeat customer rating? >> right now between 15% and 20%. it's something that we continue to try to grow. obviously a lot of the first two years of the business have been about building the core customer base and the core product line. >> when i think of lego, one of the interesting things about it, they run their manufacturing operations and have amazing quality control. you can take them from this year and they still work with legos 50 years ago. do you worry about because you're open source someone else could take your designs and manufacture them more cheaply? >> we have a very balanced kind of approach to open source where we trademark our name and still hold patents for the connector and the system in general, so ultimately if you want to make something you want to call little bit compatible, it would hav
if suddenly you add on top of it a light sensor, suddenly you are responding to the environment. what we do is make the kits and we see this consistently, people buy the kits and then come back and buy another kit, then they come back and buy individual bits. >> what's the repeat customer rating? >> right now between 15% and 20%. it's something that we continue to try to grow. obviously a lot of the first two years of the business have been about building the core customer base and...
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so it's a slow growth environment. we target to grow at a premium of about 25% to our domestic competitors in canada, and we've been able to produce that. and when you look at the growth of our business in the united states as an example where the economy is doing a little bit better, you know, our results down there have been very strong, and we continue to grow our market share. we're investing in the wealth business and the capital markets business. so, yeah, growth is hard to come by, but we're certainly not giving up. we think we can continue to meet our 7% annual growth objectives, and we haven't disappointed over the last couple years and hopefully we won't this year again. >> most banks here would salivate over an 18% return on equity point but you did see that come down from 20% in the year prior. what is sustainable in the longer term? >> our midterm objective is 18% plus which sounds high, but as i say, we've certainly been over that level over the last number of years. it is down a little bit this quarter,
so it's a slow growth environment. we target to grow at a premium of about 25% to our domestic competitors in canada, and we've been able to produce that. and when you look at the growth of our business in the united states as an example where the economy is doing a little bit better, you know, our results down there have been very strong, and we continue to grow our market share. we're investing in the wealth business and the capital markets business. so, yeah, growth is hard to come by, but...
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we will have no issue and will actually thrive in that environment and blue had great growth this year. we continue to grow. >> thanks for coming in. jane, thanks as well. final trades next. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ my mom works at ge. phone: your account is already paid in full. oh, well in that case, back to vacation mode. ♪boots and pants and boots and pants♪ ♪and boots and pants and boots and pants♪ ♪and boots and pants... voice-enabled bill pay. just a tap away on the geico app. ♪ huh, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. yup, everybody knows that. well, did you know that some owls aren't that wise. don't forget about i'm having brunch with meagan tomorrow. who? seriously, you met her like three times. who? geico. anybody have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps d
we will have no issue and will actually thrive in that environment and blue had great growth this year. we continue to grow. >> thanks for coming in. jane, thanks as well. final trades next. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ my mom works at ge. phone: your account is already paid...
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so we would characterize this as a more complacent forward looking market environment. and this is the kind of market in which you start to get paid to focus on the risks rather than the opportunities. >> one of your headlines today is ukraine is not the biggest threat. what is then? >> at the moment, people are very focussed on the improving confidence backdrop and the firmer bid to the market. if you step back, you realize that just as confidence is its own fundamental, the paper money architecture we have in the world is its own vulnerability. we see problems in the united states, china, europe, and japan. so akrcross the board we see a range of different issues that the markets will have to digest in the next couple of years. >> i see you have a lot of old tech names in there. the ciscos, the microsofts. and i'm just wondering -- >> oracle, top holding. >> yes, sorry. if the market takes off and we do get a breakout to the upside and you have some in cash and some in these old tech names that are buying back stock and issuing high dividends, are you concerned you ma
so we would characterize this as a more complacent forward looking market environment. and this is the kind of market in which you start to get paid to focus on the risks rather than the opportunities. >> one of your headlines today is ukraine is not the biggest threat. what is then? >> at the moment, people are very focussed on the improving confidence backdrop and the firmer bid to the market. if you step back, you realize that just as confidence is its own fundamental, the paper...
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adam parker at morgan stanley is still bullish, saying look, in this type of environment it's all about growth, even though you do have some big valuations in certain sectors within tech. that's where the growth is and that's where you see investors going and particularly on a day like today, they are flocking towards a tech-heavy nasdaq index. >> understandably so. thanks, sheila. appreciate it very much. >>> the dow is having its best day of the year. we are up almost 218 points on the trading session. now bob pisani is here. it's lifting almost all boats today. >> that's right. earlier today it was ten to one advancing to declining stocks. relief rally's a good way to describe this given what happened yesterday and the strength of the rally. midcap, historic high. small cap, russell 2000 at an historic high. the volatility in the vix, remember yesterday it went from 14 to 16? it went back down to 14 today, indication that tensions are easing. we don't know why. it was always unclear what the military action would be. it seems very clear we don't know what's going to happen but tanks
adam parker at morgan stanley is still bullish, saying look, in this type of environment it's all about growth, even though you do have some big valuations in certain sectors within tech. that's where the growth is and that's where you see investors going and particularly on a day like today, they are flocking towards a tech-heavy nasdaq index. >> understandably so. thanks, sheila. appreciate it very much. >>> the dow is having its best day of the year. we are up almost 218...
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this last five years i think what's really going to be amaze cigarette how well the market did in an environment that's been as anti-business as i have ever seen in my lifetime and i think that what you were just saying is absolutely true. i see this more as a spring that's wound up and ready to be unleashed. imagine where we would be if we had a president that was reaganesque that freed up capital, ended up launching new businesses for a new world. so all of that can very well happen and the fact is it can't get any worse in the last five years. >> it's coming, jack. one of the signals. stock market is telling you, the political situation, policy situation they are talking flat taxes now, they are going shut down this obamacare, it's coming jack. keep the faith. thanks to boston you gentlemen. now it was five years ago that the tea party was born. will that movement rebond with the rest of the gop and hand republicans control of the senate in november? we'll talk about that next with our political panel. please stay with us. turn aroun♪ ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪
this last five years i think what's really going to be amaze cigarette how well the market did in an environment that's been as anti-business as i have ever seen in my lifetime and i think that what you were just saying is absolutely true. i see this more as a spring that's wound up and ready to be unleashed. imagine where we would be if we had a president that was reaganesque that freed up capital, ended up launching new businesses for a new world. so all of that can very well happen and the...
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>> you can have yields that are too low and i actually think that that's the environment which we've been in. why are they so low? it's not because there's so much liquidity. it's because there's a lot of fear. the fed is beginning its tapering program but yet this flood of fears has overwhelmed the fed's withdrawal of some of its monthly stimulus. so i think that if we do see yields go too much lower, it's all a question of why, and i think really the reason now is because you'd see a spike in fear, and that wouldn't be a good thing, but again it's the type of thing i think you can just sort of look through and actually think that maybe in a month from now we're going to see that this is actually -- we're on to the next story. >> rates are low because there's no demand for credit. >> i continue to think that rates are low. we've seen this rally in rates this year, 40 bits in the ten-year in two months because investors really are concerned about some sort of repricing of risk and this happened two weeks after the fed tapered. that's not a coincidence. >> there's no demand for credit
>> you can have yields that are too low and i actually think that that's the environment which we've been in. why are they so low? it's not because there's so much liquidity. it's because there's a lot of fear. the fed is beginning its tapering program but yet this flood of fears has overwhelmed the fed's withdrawal of some of its monthly stimulus. so i think that if we do see yields go too much lower, it's all a question of why, and i think really the reason now is because you'd see a...
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it was in a totally different environment. and now, i have a congressional black berry and a campaign i-phone plus a wireless beeper. i have high definition television sets. you name it. my 8-year-old son has a laptop computer and a tablet. whole different ball game. the way we use the internet and wireless communication, they all need to be brought up to speed. if we can get any bipartisanship in congress, you will see us do that. >> host: what kind of time frame? >> guest: this is greg walden trying. i am a spear carrier. i plan to be very involved. i would hope that with the right environment we could a bill in the next congress. and in this congress, mr. walden and upton told me they will set the groundwork. >> brendan: another issue you have been involved in is on-line gambling. sheldon elderson has come out against online gambling saying he is going to do whatever he can to stop this. >> guest: let's clarify. i am for internet poker. poker is a game of skill. if the best poker player was sitting around the table they wou
it was in a totally different environment. and now, i have a congressional black berry and a campaign i-phone plus a wireless beeper. i have high definition television sets. you name it. my 8-year-old son has a laptop computer and a tablet. whole different ball game. the way we use the internet and wireless communication, they all need to be brought up to speed. if we can get any bipartisanship in congress, you will see us do that. >> host: what kind of time frame? >> guest: this is...
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obviously in this political environment. but i'm going to keep pushing back on the excessive regulation. >> senator, you voted -- i think you were a no on the debt limit. i don't think you're supporting -- supported yellen's nomination. are you standing in the way of clearing some of the uncertainty that small business essay they may be up against? >> i think the debt limit was raised. i think janet yellen is the chair of the fed. so -- but look, i don't apologize for wanting to get ourselves, our federal government, on a sustainable fiscal path. i think it's terrible policy to give the president the ability to borrow trillions of more dollars on top of the $17 trillion that we already have without a single shred of a reform. the president's refusal to even negotiate how we could make at least some modest reforms to out of control spending i think is very irresponsible. >> all right. we did see him and speaker together yesterday. maybe that's a sign of something new. >> i hope so. >> senator, thanks again. >> thanks for havi
obviously in this political environment. but i'm going to keep pushing back on the excessive regulation. >> senator, you voted -- i think you were a no on the debt limit. i don't think you're supporting -- supported yellen's nomination. are you standing in the way of clearing some of the uncertainty that small business essay they may be up against? >> i think the debt limit was raised. i think janet yellen is the chair of the fed. so -- but look, i don't apologize for wanting to get...
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it was in a different environment. now i have a congressional blackberry and a campaign iphone plus a wireless beeper that i use. i have high definition television sets. you name it. my eight-year-old son has a laptop computer and a tablet. a whole different ballgame. the way we use what we now call the internet, how we use wireless communications, they all need to be brought up to speed. if we get any bipartisanship at all in the next congress, i think you will see us do that. >> what is the timeframe you are looking at? >> i am chairman emeritus. this is a chairman fred upton -- subcommittee chairman walden trying. i plan to be very involved. i would hope that with the right environment we could do a bill in the next congress. mr. walden and mr. upton have both told me personally they are going to be doing lots of hearings and papers to set the groundwork. >> another issue you have been involved in is online gambling. sheldon adelson has come out against allowing federal framework for online gambling saying he will d
it was in a different environment. now i have a congressional blackberry and a campaign iphone plus a wireless beeper that i use. i have high definition television sets. you name it. my eight-year-old son has a laptop computer and a tablet. a whole different ballgame. the way we use what we now call the internet, how we use wireless communications, they all need to be brought up to speed. if we get any bipartisanship at all in the next congress, i think you will see us do that. >> what is...
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in this environment with mo mo stocks, there's a lot of places you can be trading these things. we've seen the volatility in some of the names. we're trading around the edges and it's been very fruitful. >> i was reading there seemed to be a lot of individual investors trading into the market right now, and the danger here -- let me just read off some of the tech stocks that had swings down more than 4% today. linkedin, zillow, blackberry, workday, sales force, zulily. a lot of these stocks that have had nice runs over the past few months, the retail investor gets in, it's like i have that app on my phone, maybe i want it, it's really kind of dangerous out there. it might suit them well to remember the big old stodgy stocks. nothing wrong with a bow tie. >> the market -- >> the bow tie. >> i'm saying there's nothing wrong with the bow tie. >> the bow tie is happening. but the market has really been sort of a momentum market over the last couple months. what you see today even before the ukraine situation overflowed into the rest of the market was beta coming out of the market. t
in this environment with mo mo stocks, there's a lot of places you can be trading these things. we've seen the volatility in some of the names. we're trading around the edges and it's been very fruitful. >> i was reading there seemed to be a lot of individual investors trading into the market right now, and the danger here -- let me just read off some of the tech stocks that had swings down more than 4% today. linkedin, zillow, blackberry, workday, sales force, zulily. a lot of these...
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that a commercial aircraft environment. increaseden an emphasis on noise reduction. sound levels can only allow you to have good speech interaction within one or two feet of each other. down to 47 got decibels, where they can communicate between eight to 16 feet. once it was identified you could get lower, we said let's see how far you could go. sound proofing is a holistic approach. apply a continuous uninterrupted layer of insulation and also isolate the components that may pass through that barrier to make sure vibrations don't pass through and get conducted into the interior. we also have to treat the systems in the barrier already like air-conditioning, fuel pumps, ventilation fans and whatnot. it's about optimization. the more sound attenuating materials we have, the more weight you add to the aircraft, which adversely impacts the mission requirement come as others quite a bit of science that goes into the development of the systems. this is what would typically come on an airbus aircraft. the have developed a whole n
that a commercial aircraft environment. increaseden an emphasis on noise reduction. sound levels can only allow you to have good speech interaction within one or two feet of each other. down to 47 got decibels, where they can communicate between eight to 16 feet. once it was identified you could get lower, we said let's see how far you could go. sound proofing is a holistic approach. apply a continuous uninterrupted layer of insulation and also isolate the components that may pass through that...
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>> we do see that when the regulatory environment or economic environment is uncertain. business owners are more reluctant to take on capital. what is encouraging about the data we've seen over the last couple of years is that as the housing has come back from the bottom, we have seen business owners get more optimistic about how they can use capital to grow their business. that's the kind of use that makes sense for our loans. >> noah, you describe yourself as a platform and not a bank, necessarily. who are you connecting people or are you extending the capital the loans yourself and, if so, how much capital are you holding to protect against losses? >> yes. so we're holding an extensive amount of equity capitol to protect against losses. we get the money for the loans themselves from banks like goldman sachs, deutsche banks, square one banks and hedge funds from smaller individuals. it's a variety of capital sources funding the loans. con necking wall street to main street with our platform. >> are you regulated like a bank? >> we're regulated like a non-bank commercia
>> we do see that when the regulatory environment or economic environment is uncertain. business owners are more reluctant to take on capital. what is encouraging about the data we've seen over the last couple of years is that as the housing has come back from the bottom, we have seen business owners get more optimistic about how they can use capital to grow their business. that's the kind of use that makes sense for our loans. >> noah, you describe yourself as a platform and not a...
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it was in a totally different environment. and now i have two, i have a congressional blackberry and a campaign iphone plus a wireless beeper i use up here. i've got high definition television sets. you name it, my 8-year-old son has a laptop computer and a tablet. a whole different ball game. and the way we use what we now call the internet, the way we use wireless communications, they all need to be brought up to speed, and if we can get any bipartisanship at all in the next congress, i think you'll see us do that. >> host: what kind of time frame are you looking? >> guest: i'm chairman emeritus, this is the chairman -- fred upton, greg walden, i'm a spear carrier. but i hope to be, i plan to be very involved. i would hope that with the right environment we could do a bill in the next congress. and in this congress mr. walden and mr. upton have both told me personally and they've said pluckily they're going to be -- publicly they're going to be lots of hearings to set the groundwork to do it. >> host: brendan sasso. >> anoth
it was in a totally different environment. and now i have two, i have a congressional blackberry and a campaign iphone plus a wireless beeper i use up here. i've got high definition television sets. you name it, my 8-year-old son has a laptop computer and a tablet. a whole different ball game. and the way we use what we now call the internet, the way we use wireless communications, they all need to be brought up to speed, and if we can get any bipartisanship at all in the next congress, i think...
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the stock took an enormous hit as did the company the culture and the environment. and they made major changes in terms of getting the company back on track. restoring consumer confidence. and you feel a sense of momentum in the company right now. >> it's physically 11 times the size. jcpenney is 11 times the size of sachs in terms of outlets. what do you learn from luxury retailing that you can then apply to this much bigger retailer that clearly is at lower price points in the industry? >> i think in the end it's all about satisfying the consumers' needs, understanding who your consumer is and catering to them and providing them the products and services that they want, whether it's the high end of a sachs or nieman's or a jcpenney level, it's really about giving them the products they want. sunday night you saw in the oscars some terrific advertising that was all about fitting the individual jcpenney customer because it's, again, going back to the basics of the products they want. >> first quarterly sales growth since 2011. how involved is the board which is much
the stock took an enormous hit as did the company the culture and the environment. and they made major changes in terms of getting the company back on track. restoring consumer confidence. and you feel a sense of momentum in the company right now. >> it's physically 11 times the size. jcpenney is 11 times the size of sachs in terms of outlets. what do you learn from luxury retailing that you can then apply to this much bigger retailer that clearly is at lower price points in the industry?...
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the next statement was you want to know my record on the environment and we're like yeah. and he said zero. >> i used to think whoever you elected in office, they were working for you, for the guy that got him in there. i woke up. i was that naive. until we went to washington, until we went senator johannes' first comment to us was i don't care about you and the pipeline. >> wait a minute. he used to be the governor -- >> yes, yes. >> and he used to be the ex-secretary. >> exactly. >> now he is a united states senator, he said what? >> he does not care about us and the pipeline. >> senator johannes, along with 44 other republican senators have signed a letter to president obama urging approval of the project. so before keystone, you really weren't mad at politicians, were you? it doesn't sound like it. >> no. >> going along. >> all this process has done is soured some really good americans about how their government works. >> i think our elected officials have done a dirty trick on us. they kind of sold us out. you know, lee terry out of omaha, governor heineman, name it.
the next statement was you want to know my record on the environment and we're like yeah. and he said zero. >> i used to think whoever you elected in office, they were working for you, for the guy that got him in there. i woke up. i was that naive. until we went to washington, until we went senator johannes' first comment to us was i don't care about you and the pipeline. >> wait a minute. he used to be the governor -- >> yes, yes. >> and he used to be the ex-secretary....
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. >> we modify aircrafts to make it more like a home environment. increaseden an emphasis on noise reduction in aircrafts. a sound level would only allow you to have good speech interaction within one feet of each other. we have 47 decibels. they communicate 16 feet easily. once it was identify that you could get lower, we rely, alessio far we can go. we apply a continuous and uninterrupted barrier of installation -- insulation. we isolate the component that passed through the barriers. we also have to treat the systems within the barrier already. ventilation fans and whatnot. it is about optimization. more we add, the more weight you add to the aircraft. this would be what would typically come on aircraft. but we develop an whole new only two thirds of the way, it is 10 decibels quieter or half the noise level. interior,f the basic it would be $25 million range. we will have a wide body aircraft. 747, that is just what we do from the interior completion standpoint. class coming up, the bank of nova scotia will be in the spotlight. we will speak to
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officers a month ago talking about fighting and combat and all of those kind of things f these the environment you want, uaw certain slit people for you to -- are the people to choose. they can't help with the wages. you have got a facility that's the most advanced, environmentally sound facility in the world right here in chattanooga, tennessee. so, what's this about? it's about one thing. it's about money and it's about power. >> now, in the arena of public opinion, do you think most common sense folks would say, that's involvement? that's real involvement in an election? overall, corker flat-out lied about the united auto workers union. >> we support the works council notion that they are trying to implement. we just had concerns about the uaw. we know of their track record. we know what's happened in communities were they've been located. we know they have been a job-destroying entity through the years. >> no, no, no, no. corker is lying when he makes comments like that about the uaw. uaw has saved thousands of johns all over the country and they have the numbers to back it up. let me be c
officers a month ago talking about fighting and combat and all of those kind of things f these the environment you want, uaw certain slit people for you to -- are the people to choose. they can't help with the wages. you have got a facility that's the most advanced, environmentally sound facility in the world right here in chattanooga, tennessee. so, what's this about? it's about one thing. it's about money and it's about power. >> now, in the arena of public opinion, do you think most...
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. >> so it's a selected environment? >> absolutely. >> is mayor de blasio correct in doing what he's doing? >> he didn't shut any school. that is the irony. the bloomberg administration as it was leaving swiftly approved 49 applications for charters. he approved 39 out of 49. she got three new schools. three of her applications were denied. so she's saying that three of her schools were closed. they don't even exist. >> ruth, what did you take out of the conference down in texas? what is this movement going to do, and also what about -- that is kind of the belly of the beast down there when it comes to testing and forming the tests that our students will be taking. isn't it? >> it absolutely is. and you know as diane put it so he will lo eloquently, it's really the heart of the testing industrial complex. and i think what we see is a nationwide movement of public school activists, of teachers, of parents and students themselves who are saying there is something wrong when we have this dual system, when we have corporatio
. >> so it's a selected environment? >> absolutely. >> is mayor de blasio correct in doing what he's doing? >> he didn't shut any school. that is the irony. the bloomberg administration as it was leaving swiftly approved 49 applications for charters. he approved 39 out of 49. she got three new schools. three of her applications were denied. so she's saying that three of her schools were closed. they don't even exist. >> ruth, what did you take out of the conference...
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it could be the largest youth sit in on the environment in a generation. students from over 80 colleges rallied at georgetown university then marched to the white house wearing mock hazmat suits and holding banners with slogans like "keep your oil out of my soil." unfurled aers then black tarp and about 50 people lay down on the sidewalk creating a human oil spill. several hundred protesters locked themselves to the white house fence after being arrested by security. here are some of the voices from the protest. >> hundreds of young people all came here from all over the country, 42 states, to show president obama that keystone is not ok, it is not in our interest and we need to reject the pipeline. >> we're here to president obama and secretary john kerry that the keystone xl is not a good move. >> there are thousands of young people marching to the white house to risk arrest to demand the president obama say no to keystone xl. >> this is the most important issue we are facing. >> we have been arrested. forth and you see people come to you and tell you th
it could be the largest youth sit in on the environment in a generation. students from over 80 colleges rallied at georgetown university then marched to the white house wearing mock hazmat suits and holding banners with slogans like "keep your oil out of my soil." unfurled aers then black tarp and about 50 people lay down on the sidewalk creating a human oil spill. several hundred protesters locked themselves to the white house fence after being arrested by security. here are some of...
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. >> well, senator, i agree that environment of low rates, low interest rates, especially when it prevails for a long time and we have had a long period of low interest rates, can give rise to behavior that poses threats to financial stability. and, therefore, we need to be looking at that very carefully. and we are doing so in a very thoroughfare way, i believe. there are a number of things that we are monitoring. measures of asset prices and whether or not they appear to be diverging from historical norms, namely it's hard but we're trying to spot any asset bubbles, price bubbles that might be emerging. we're looking at leverage which build up in leverage can be very dangerous to the financial system and pose stability risks. we're looking at trends in leverage. we're looking at credit growth to see whether or not that has potentially worrisome trends. in addition to that, we're looking particularly through our stress tests, at financial institutions and a low-interest rate environment. we have to worry about whether or not they're appropriately dealing with interest rate risk. we have b
. >> well, senator, i agree that environment of low rates, low interest rates, especially when it prevails for a long time and we have had a long period of low interest rates, can give rise to behavior that poses threats to financial stability. and, therefore, we need to be looking at that very carefully. and we are doing so in a very thoroughfare way, i believe. there are a number of things that we are monitoring. measures of asset prices and whether or not they appear to be diverging...
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driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. what a day. can't wait til tomorrow. ♪ >>> you talked about the nasdaq being up big and this is one of the reasons. take a stock like omni vision technologies and they reported that a number of people didn't expect anything good because people thought they would lose apple business and china business, but it was much better than expected. they are looking for trading cash, and sound like yahoo!? it is a major change. and now what has been red hot is biotech. medivation, they ahave a cancer drug, and they say they will accelerate, but it is not. and the jaws are dropping on the analysts who were bull ish, and keep in mind that where you have moves in biotech where everything is up, and up, and up, and everything must be perfect, and when they are not, the stocks get hammered. >> and how do you guide people through that morass, the biotech morass and who is going to win and lose? >> well, you fry to have companies who are more than one product, because we call them shots on gold at "
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so russ, you think we're going back to that environment. if we have shaken off concerns about the economy at this point, what is the next thing that causes pressure? is it something internally in the united states? or you think it's external pressures like those emerging markets? >> i think a couple things. emerging markets are one issue. i think there, while it's going to occasionally scare investors, we're not that worried about a transition from emerging markets to developed markets in terms of actual economics. i think the bigger issue is going to be what happens to u.s. rates. if we remain in an environment in which the backup in rates is be benign, which is our assumption, i think that the growth we're going to see this year will help u.s. stocks move higher by the end of the year. >> how come you think oil prices are so high at this point? this is venezuela, it's what's happening in ukraine, even though they're not oil producers. >> no, i think it's something else. this is a really good point. people focus on the surge in u.s. produc
so russ, you think we're going back to that environment. if we have shaken off concerns about the economy at this point, what is the next thing that causes pressure? is it something internally in the united states? or you think it's external pressures like those emerging markets? >> i think a couple things. emerging markets are one issue. i think there, while it's going to occasionally scare investors, we're not that worried about a transition from emerging markets to developed markets in...
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that lends itself to a very fertile environment for what we do. take one case example. yesterday you filed a 13 tnd with one of your companies, huge, employees 60,000 people. you want to talk to the board about pretty much everything, right? management, capital structure, other stuff. what ultimately are you trying to achieve here you go -- achieve here you go -- achieve here? several pretty much everything. >> is there that much wrong with the company? >> there are a lot of things right with the company. but all of those things you articulated -- i'm very confident we will be able to work things out amicably. >> i have met the ceo. he is a pretty thoughtful guy, nice guy. >> nice guy. >> in cb right eye for the job -- is he the right guy for the job? >> he is retiring. >> that's an opportunity for someone new. and you want to help the board decide who that should be? >> i think shareholders should have a role. we are the largest shareholder. i think shareholder should definitely have a role in this. >> what is your favorite activist campaign? you have been doing this f
that lends itself to a very fertile environment for what we do. take one case example. yesterday you filed a 13 tnd with one of your companies, huge, employees 60,000 people. you want to talk to the board about pretty much everything, right? management, capital structure, other stuff. what ultimately are you trying to achieve here you go -- achieve here you go -- achieve here? several pretty much everything. >> is there that much wrong with the company? >> there are a lot of things...
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we don't think we'll see deflation but we certainly doesn't think we're entering an environment, rapid inflation either. if you look at measures of the labor market, which it's getting harder to gauge as unemployment rate comes down, there are signs of under utilization, marriagely attached whatters, part time for economic reasons and that represents hidden slack in the labor market, and it will keep down pressure on overall core inflation. >> the last two jobs reports were disappointing, hard to predict. how do you go about making a model for friday's job number? >> it is not easy because trying to put weather variables in models have been frustrating. our baseline forecast is below consensus, we're at 115,000. we tended to focus a lot on the weather conditions during this survey week and they were poor, with a snowstorm that hit the east coast, particularly the southeast had a big shutdown in activity. we think that will result in weakness in the headline number. but as you suggest, there's a big rhyme for air flr this month's payroll number. >> 150, looks like consensus. >> they're
we don't think we'll see deflation but we certainly doesn't think we're entering an environment, rapid inflation either. if you look at measures of the labor market, which it's getting harder to gauge as unemployment rate comes down, there are signs of under utilization, marriagely attached whatters, part time for economic reasons and that represents hidden slack in the labor market, and it will keep down pressure on overall core inflation. >> the last two jobs reports were disappointing,...
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to remain, it needs to adopt to a rapidly changing commercial environment. >> as well as cutting costs and changing itself, the airline is pushing for a change in the way its regulated. australian's government has been considered lifting restrictions on foreigners with a majority stake in the airline. the country wants the government to garb tee its debts with change from within and a change in regulation, quantity at us management thinks they can help the airline fly high once again. >> you are watching the aljazeera news hour. we have more to come, including the crisis in ukraine, plus the secret files of yanukovych, we reveal the contents of thousands of documents which could incriminate the former president. >> real madrid take a big step toward the quarter finals. details coming up. >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. al jazeera america. we open up your world. >> here on america tonight, an o
to remain, it needs to adopt to a rapidly changing commercial environment. >> as well as cutting costs and changing itself, the airline is pushing for a change in the way its regulated. australian's government has been considered lifting restrictions on foreigners with a majority stake in the airline. the country wants the government to garb tee its debts with change from within and a change in regulation, quantity at us management thinks they can help the airline fly high once again....
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saying it has become a hazard to public health safety and environment. let's bring in the global head of commodities at citi, ed morse. great to have you with us. >> great to be with you. >> will this stall things in transporting crude? >> we don't know yet. there's a lot of crude and petroleum products that are shipped by rail in north america. about 700 million barrels a day. it's been petroleum product that's been moved by rail. the big surge is north dakota going by rail, east, west and south. and the explosion recently, might have some consequences in north dakota. >> what is the risk, as you see it, to crude oil prices in terms of, if that shipment has slowed because some cars are taken off of that cycle? >> you look at the amount of trains and tankers coming out of the north dakota terminal, it is a train with 100 tankers, leaves that terminal every 2 1/2 hours. if that slowed down, what does that mean to the price of oil? >> sure. we don't know whether that's going to be whether they're going to aim. they're going to aim in part, at what the gase
saying it has become a hazard to public health safety and environment. let's bring in the global head of commodities at citi, ed morse. great to have you with us. >> great to be with you. >> will this stall things in transporting crude? >> we don't know yet. there's a lot of crude and petroleum products that are shipped by rail in north america. about 700 million barrels a day. it's been petroleum product that's been moved by rail. the big surge is north dakota going by rail,...
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you create a good environment for the economy to grow. >> that's a great contrast, this red state contrast. sam brownback in kansas, mary fallin in oklahoma, john casic in ohio. they're limiting government, reforming programs, lowering tax rates to get better investment in companies. what's so hard about this? john f. kennedy did it 50 years ago. ronald reagan about it 30 years ago. >> they believe so much in central government, central economic planning. they believe it's unfair for people to be making a lot of money when the aspiration of every american should be to make more money, get on that ladder of opportunity. it's so frustrating, larry, to be on the inside and working with these people when they don't think debt matters. the president is increasing debt, almost doubling it over the next ten or 12 years. it's incredible, given the fact that he's amassed more debt as a president than all the presidents before him combined if you take it through the rest of his administration. >> i think if the economy would grow with fresh incentives and regulatory roll backs and we get back to fou
you create a good environment for the economy to grow. >> that's a great contrast, this red state contrast. sam brownback in kansas, mary fallin in oklahoma, john casic in ohio. they're limiting government, reforming programs, lowering tax rates to get better investment in companies. what's so hard about this? john f. kennedy did it 50 years ago. ronald reagan about it 30 years ago. >> they believe so much in central government, central economic planning. they believe it's unfair...
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j.d., the joint information environment. so if i were to leave you one thought of what we could and should do as a nation, we should protect these networks better than we have been protected today. not just within the defense department but also our critical infrastructures. time and again we're seeing where people have exploited into these networks only to find out that the way they're getting in is so easy that is difficult to defend. so step one, chairman, i think is a defensible architecture. attacks are growing. it was mentioned by the ranking member, the attacks we saw against wall street and around the world, the destructive attacks that hit saudi aramco, and most recently the sands corporation. when you look at those destructive attacks, they just tried data on systems. that had to be replaced. this is facing difficult change from disruptive attacks which only disrupt for the time that attack is going on versus the destructive attack where the information is actually lost. far more damaging, far more timely, far more
j.d., the joint information environment. so if i were to leave you one thought of what we could and should do as a nation, we should protect these networks better than we have been protected today. not just within the defense department but also our critical infrastructures. time and again we're seeing where people have exploited into these networks only to find out that the way they're getting in is so easy that is difficult to defend. so step one, chairman, i think is a defensible...
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host: worried about the environment. guest: i touched on that a minute ago. if we were to get the right kind of regulatory environment that encourages private investment, capital investment, there are hundreds of billions in terms of private investment that is ready going into ands is ready to go into the energy industry. that investment drives new technologies so we can produce more energy with better environmental stewardship. when we talk about drilling techniques and drilling many oil head, whenone single we talk about hydraulic fracturing, we are producing energy with less omissions and a smaller environmental footprint. when you get the right kind of regulatory approach that drives that investment, you deploy these new technologies -- they produce more energy with better environmental stewardship. environmentalfrom standpoint and those technologies are adopted around the globe. that is how you get the better environmental stewardship with more energy production. host: we talked about some of your other work on capitol hill. the olympics just ended and y
host: worried about the environment. guest: i touched on that a minute ago. if we were to get the right kind of regulatory environment that encourages private investment, capital investment, there are hundreds of billions in terms of private investment that is ready going into ands is ready to go into the energy industry. that investment drives new technologies so we can produce more energy with better environmental stewardship. when we talk about drilling techniques and drilling many oil head,...
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people prone develop allergic reactions to whatever is in the environment. children who live in the south had a slightly higher risk. >> an allergy specialist joins us. allergies are a multi-billion dollars business. $7.9 billion a year is spent on allergies. 55% of americans have at least one, and 30,000 americans visit the emergency room because of food allergies. how will this new study affect all of that? >> i think what's really interesting is previously we thought the allergy is prevalent in the south united states. now it appears the pref lance is equal across the country. in urban communities, allergic to indoor allergens like dust mites and cockroach. >> you find something you were allergic to, just not prone to allergies in that region. >> that's been long known that individuals will move to try to avoid triggers to allergies and two to three years later develop allergies. this is showing the pref lance is similar across the country. >> what is wrong with a higher rate in the south? >> they linked exposure to indoor allergen, dust mites and cock ro
people prone develop allergic reactions to whatever is in the environment. children who live in the south had a slightly higher risk. >> an allergy specialist joins us. allergies are a multi-billion dollars business. $7.9 billion a year is spent on allergies. 55% of americans have at least one, and 30,000 americans visit the emergency room because of food allergies. how will this new study affect all of that? >> i think what's really interesting is previously we thought the allergy...
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they make it a shopping environment. we know you love tesla. tesla is going down. the stock is up today. does he mean, or she, do they mean that the stock will go down? >> i do not have a comment on it. whether it will have a powerful battery to lower the cost of the model. can they make a battery? solar city. tesla invented a battery. who knows. local, chapultepec, a new high, i believe. nicole: the shareholders love to see it. it hit 579. up about 4%. just recently hit another high. do not forget, now they are offering shredded tofu. stuart: who saw $500 a share? nicole: a mcdonald's spinoff. you remember when. stuart: take a look at radioshack. the company is closing 1100 stores. now they have announced they are closing 1100 stores. is this a possible turnaround? liz: i do not think so. we have been talking about radioshack for years. i think the cost is way too much. stuart: the last comment from you. >> you go for doctors. stuart: welcome back, tracy. we thank everybody for participating. thank you. an attorney for lois lerner says she will only testify under
they make it a shopping environment. we know you love tesla. tesla is going down. the stock is up today. does he mean, or she, do they mean that the stock will go down? >> i do not have a comment on it. whether it will have a powerful battery to lower the cost of the model. can they make a battery? solar city. tesla invented a battery. who knows. local, chapultepec, a new high, i believe. nicole: the shareholders love to see it. it hit 579. up about 4%. just recently hit another high. do...
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has by castingt this environment of weak this takeed president putin to the actions. the whole thing began by him intervening in ukraine internal politics where they were trying to execute an agreement with the eu. ultimately this invasion by russia. the president, and secretary kerry, have to shift their view to understand this is a different russia than they perceived. their view has been as secure russia is a secure europe, but the more secure russia feels, the more adventurous they become. the secretary needs to begin to recognize this is not an east-west issue. >> bring as breaking news to help us in the conversation. >> the ukraine prime minister says russian forces are now only in crimea. also seeks clarity for what they want and says the troops will not invade east ukraine. headlines from the ukrainian prime minister. to what extent is there discussion on moving american warship to the region if it comes to that? there needs to be a broader discussion then where do we move asset? takeed to make sure we actions that strengthen the allies. a number of allies are
has by castingt this environment of weak this takeed president putin to the actions. the whole thing began by him intervening in ukraine internal politics where they were trying to execute an agreement with the eu. ultimately this invasion by russia. the president, and secretary kerry, have to shift their view to understand this is a different russia than they perceived. their view has been as secure russia is a secure europe, but the more secure russia feels, the more adventurous they become....
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fundamentally very challenging to see substantial price appreciation when you have that type of an environment. hopefully that will improve. >> great to hear your thoughts, daniel morris from tiaa-cref's asset management. >> thanks for getting up early, appreciate it. >>> still to come, the closing keynote address at the world congress. >> the keenly awaited speech right after the break. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts, ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time, 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it's building the world's most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned systems. at boeing, one thing never changes. our passion to make it real. ♪ >>> welcome back to the show. facebook and samsung have been in the main newsmakers so far at this year's mobile world dmong barcelona. the social network ceo defended his what's app acquisition and attention turns to data and cloud computing ahead of ib ibm ceo's keynote address. jon forte is live, what should we look out for? >> reporter: this should be big da
fundamentally very challenging to see substantial price appreciation when you have that type of an environment. hopefully that will improve. >> great to hear your thoughts, daniel morris from tiaa-cref's asset management. >> thanks for getting up early, appreciate it. >>> still to come, the closing keynote address at the world congress. >> the keenly awaited speech right after the break. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts, ♪ 800,000 hours of...
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a lot said it would be bad are to the environment. state department releasing a sthament it might not have a significant impact. we're still waiting for the obama administration to weigh in and decide whether or not they're going to green light the construction of that pipeline. >>> the strange signs a california couple saw before realizing they'd been sitting on a golden treasure. >>> in today's office politics, joy reid most of "the reid report." and why the criticism of efforts to help young minority men. but, first, i asked joy what's at risk in kentucky's high profile senate race. >> this is one of the most races in the country. first of all, it has happened that somebody at mitch mcconnell's level has been brought down. it's possible that he could lose this thing. i don't think it's possible that he loses the primary. but it's possible that the primary drags him down with that tea party base. all of the tragedy of is fascinating. rand paul, a junior senator but really now a boss now. you've got this old-fashioned politician who
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from acting in the interests of the environment and our country. coal-fired plants are the single largest source of carbon pollution and today, there is no limit on how much carbon pollution they can emit. that's why president obama directed e.p.a. to use its existing authority under the clean air act to require power plants to control carbon pollution, something long overdue. e.p.a. proposed a rule to require new plants to use available pollution control technology to capture and sequester carbon pollution. for existing plants, e.p.a. is working with stake holders to think through the best approach. e.p.a. has not yet even issued a proposal but industry is moving on. in my region, a major utility made the decision on sound economics and environment to hut down a coal powered plant. h.r. 3826 would stop e.p.a. from issuing any rules and allow these plants to keep emitting unlimited amounts of carbon pollution. and for existing plant the bill would be straight out prohibition of any e.p.a. rule from becoming effective unless congress somehow passed
from acting in the interests of the environment and our country. coal-fired plants are the single largest source of carbon pollution and today, there is no limit on how much carbon pollution they can emit. that's why president obama directed e.p.a. to use its existing authority under the clean air act to require power plants to control carbon pollution, something long overdue. e.p.a. proposed a rule to require new plants to use available pollution control technology to capture and sequester...
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. >> took a reading of the environment. we found 75 parts per million. to put that in perspective, we don our breathing gear at 25 parts per million. >> saved my life. that's all i can tell you. >> what a dog. max right there. that leak was caused by debris and soot that clogged the gas powered heater inside his house. >>> and the woosification of america is heading north to canada. a youth basketball team there staging a protest after it was disqualified from a tournament. the team was undefeated. so the reason they were disqualified? all the players weren't getting equal time playing on the court. that breaks the rules that promote fun and deemphasize winning. what do you think of that? those are your headlines. we're hearing a lot from some folk. >> thanks. >> one wrote and said if winning is demom sized in this league, why is there even a tournament to begin with? i added the to begin with. >> trudy says, the rule was everyone on your team must play. all other teams followed that rule except for the winning team that cheated. don't cheat. >> todd say
. >> took a reading of the environment. we found 75 parts per million. to put that in perspective, we don our breathing gear at 25 parts per million. >> saved my life. that's all i can tell you. >> what a dog. max right there. that leak was caused by debris and soot that clogged the gas powered heater inside his house. >>> and the woosification of america is heading north to canada. a youth basketball team there staging a protest after it was disqualified from a...
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we don't have the same touch or nurturing environment. we'll get back and improve the outcomes. >> i want to take the moment to remind the viewers that morehouse targets the nurterring of young african american men. you and i know that there are class lines. asian students led with 81% graduation followed by white 80%, lat eachios 68 and blacks 62% - graduating high school, how do you think the president's initiative will narrow the gap. >> i want to absentuate that a bit. it starts with low reading lels. it's worse far african american males. 86% read below reading levels. it's no surprise that one in three go to prison. there's a cradle to prison pipeline. what we are trying to do is caning that, shift it from a cradle to prison so cradle to power pipeline. morehouse will have a lot to do with that. what the president announced is significant. it's a tie with the philanthropic community. that's where you saw the 200 million injected into this scenario. and that is - there'll be a lot more. also, the federal government will take part in
we don't have the same touch or nurturing environment. we'll get back and improve the outcomes. >> i want to take the moment to remind the viewers that morehouse targets the nurterring of young african american men. you and i know that there are class lines. asian students led with 81% graduation followed by white 80%, lat eachios 68 and blacks 62% - graduating high school, how do you think the president's initiative will narrow the gap. >> i want to absentuate that a bit. it starts...